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When Threatened, Power Elites Go Ballistic
To what extent will DJT and MAGA go to to maintain power? Mistry’s novel A Fine Balance shows the brutality elites are capable of when threatened.
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Kipling on How to Be a Free People
Revisiting The Jungle Books while watch Trump kowtow to dictators has me examining the Wolf Pack’s claims to “a free people” while kowtowing to Shere Khan.
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Rereading Narnia in the Age of Trump
Rereading Lewis’s Horse and His Boy in the age of Trump has be wondering if we’re closer to Calormen than Narnia.
Blake’s Celebration of the American Revolution
in “America: A Prophecy,” Blake captures the revolutionary energies that overcame George III. We need a return to those energies.
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C.S. Lewis Speaks for the Trees
Images of Trumpian assaults on nature can be found in C.S. Lewis’s The Last Battle, where we encounter horrific images of deforestation.
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DJT Replays Scene from Dead Zone
DJT escaping his plane in a catering cart while using reporters and staff as decoys is reminiscent of a scene in Stephen King’s Dead Zone.
DJT as a Harpy, Befouling All That Is Good
DJT befouling all that is sacred is akin to Virgil’s harpies befouling Aeneas’s feast.
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